Dubrovnik Croatia

Northwest to the countryside of Dubrovnik is the Minčeta fortress. It is named after the Ragusan aristocracy family Minčetic. In 1319 Nikifor Ranjina first designed and built a tower with a square floor plan, later modified by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi in its present form. The Minčeta Tower is the highest elevation of the city wall and landmark of Dubrovnik.
Tip: Below the Minčeta fortress is the Gornji Ugao Tower. In addition to the casemates of Minčeta, the archaeological site of a historic foundry can also be admired here. The entrance and the guided tour of this exhibition are included in the ticket price of the Minčeta fortress.
Address: Ul. Iza Grada, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia

• Minčeta Fortress
• Museum Gornji Ugao Tower
• Tourist Information

The Pile Gate is the main gate in the west of the fortress city of Dubrovnik. It consists of an inner gate of 14th Century and the outer gate of 1537. The former drawbridge between the two gates is now replaced by a stone bridge. The patron saint Sveti Vlaho (St. Blaise) also protects this access to the city from both sides.
If you walk through the gates you will be right on the Stradun, the pedestrian zone of the historic old town. The access is barrier-free.

Pile Brsalije 5
T 020 / 312-011
ured.pile@tzdubrovnik.hr
daily 8:00 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The semi circled bastion protected the seaside of Dubrovnik in the west. It was founded in the15th century, built according to a design by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi from Florence. He was the main architect of the Medici. Fort Bokar is a casemated fortress and probably the oldest surviving defensive tower in Europe.

• Fort Bokar

Sveti Petar is part of the historic city wall and is halfway between Fort Bokar and Sveti Ivan Fortress. The café “SV. Petar ”with a beautiful view of the city, the sea and the offshore islands is situated on wall’s top. A popular stopover on the circular route on the city wall.

• Coffee Bar Sv. Petar

In 1571, the Margarita Bastion was built by the reconstruction of a former tower. The Church of St Margaret is situated there. This oldest church has one nave and a rectangular apse, although it was built during the Renaissance period. Services are no longer held in this church.

These bastions are also stopovers on the Dubrovnik city wall round way. Saint Stjepan was built from 1658 to 1660 and Saint Spasitelj short before from 1647 to 1657.
Saint Spasitelj, offers also a café and a magnificent view over the sea to Lokrum as well as over the Buza beach.

In defence of the city harbour, the fortress of Saint Ivan (called also Saint John) was built.
At first, a chain protected the harbour, stretched by the Mula tower (14th century) to the tower St. Luka. During the extension to the fortress St. Ivan, the harbour also received a fixed fortification to protect against aggressors and the flood. The architect was Paskoje Miličević Mihov. He was given the fortress its semi-circular form in the 16thcentury.
The fortress Ivan is today home of the aquarium on the 1st floor and the Maritime Museum of Dubrovnik on the 2nd and 3rd floor. While below the colourful underwater world enlivens the fortress walls, above exhibitions on cartography, shipbuilding and maritime art with numerous historical nautical exhibits complete the experience in the St. John fortress. Museum and aquarium have different entrances. A ticket authorizes the visit of both institutions.

• Maritime Museum
• Aquarium Dubrovnik
• Maritime and Coastal Institute

Saint Luka tower is situated on the harbour across from Saint Ivan Fortress with the Mula tower. Once a chain, stretched from Tower Luka to Tower Mula, secured the harbour access. In 1467, Paskoje Miličević designed this wall with cannon embrasures for the former old Saint Luka tower. Also, the breakwater (Kaše) he designed and thus he secured the harbour against enemies and forces of nature.
The tower of St. Luka now houses a gallery and is part of the Saint Ivan Fortress.

Revelin Fortress is a ravelin on the northeast corner of the fortress city of Dubrovnik, which was protect the Ploče gate.
Built in 1463 outside the city walls, the fort was expanded in 1538 by Antonio Ferramolino di Bergamo and additionally fortified.
In the past, the terraces of the ravelin were reserved for the Ivan Rabljanin cannon foundry and the defence. Today they offer space for a lot of culture and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. There is also a permanent archaeological exhibition and a popular nightclub in the Revelin fortress
Adress: Ul. Svetog Dominika 3,20000, Dubrovnik,Croatia

• Club Revelin

1450 - construction of the outer gate of the city gate of Ploče by Simeon della Cava. The 15th-century gate consists of an inner and an outer gate connected by a stone bridge. It forms the easternmost point of the city wall and must be passed to get from the city walls to the beaches. Dubrovnik's patron Saint Vlaho (St. Blasius) watches over his city above the gate.
The triangular Asimon Fortress towers over the Ploče Gate on the inside of the city. It was built at a very early stage in order to integrate the adjacent Dominican monastery into the city wall.

The limestone fortress is located outside the city walls on a 37m high rock. It protected the west of the old town from the land and the water side. Lovrijenac is also called the Gibraltar of Dubrovnik. It was built in the 14th and 15th century. After the earthquake of 1667, reconstructions have been performed. The 10 cannons, including the Guster Cannon, a masterpiece of the gun foundry Ivan Rabljanin, defended fortress and city. Above the entrance gate is the message 'Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro' - 'not for all the gold of the world is freedom to sell'.
In order to be sure of the loyalty of the fortress crew and their commander, only rations were received from the city for 30 days each.
A current combined ticket for the visit of the city walls also allows you to visit St. Lorenz Fortress. The breath-taking view above the sea and the fortifications compensates for the much stair-steps, which must be climbed during the visit.
During the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Lovrijenac becomes a spectacular stage for performances such as Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Adress: Ul. od Tabakarije 29, 20000 Dubrovnik, +385 20 638 800

• Fortress Lovrijenac

The northern city wall stretches for about 280 meters between Asimov Fortress and Minčeta Fortress.
It is reinforced by the Bastion St. Jakov, the fortified towers St. Vid, St. Lucija, St. Barbara and a fourth tower, where the Buža gate leads into the city.

In 1907, under the Austrian-Hungarian rule, the Gate was built into the mighty city walls. Austrian officers were thus able to reach their tennis courts in the fortress. The Pile Tower and the Fish Market Tower will also be demolished under this command.
The gate is also accessible by car, access to the old town is not barrier free for the reason of many stairs.
The Dubrovnik cable car can be reached very quickly via the Buža Gate. It leads from the old town to the local mountain Brdo Srd and offers a spectacular view from above into the old town.

• Cable Car Dubrovnik

The oldest part of the city wall is the arsenal (Orsan) from the 7th century. The arsenal was expanded several times and was fortified in 1345. In the city wall west of the Arsenal towards St. Ivan is another city gate, the Ponte Gate (1476).
Today the Arsenal houses the Gradska Kavana restaurant.

• Arsenal (Orsan) and Ponte-Gate

The Gothic-style fish market gate of 1381 is in the harbour, on the city walls, east of the Great Arsenal. Also, over this gate St. Blasius is watching over the city. Until the 19th century, the square in front of the gate was the site of a lively trade in the fruits of the sea. After the restoration of the Ribarice district, this tradition should revive again.

The Neapolitan master builder Onofrio di Giordano della Cava was commissioned to build the palace on the ruins of old fortress walls. Through explosions, fires and earthquakes and reconstruction, the originally Gothic palace also bears features of the Baroque and Renaissance.
In the Rector's Palace - Knežev dvor - is the former seat of the State Administration of the Republic of Ragusa. The Small Council (Consilium Minus) and the Senate (Consilium Rogatorum) resided here from the 14th century until 1808. He was also the residence of the rector of the city who was in office for one month (chairman of the Small Council). The Rector's Palace was also the armoury, powder magazine, guard and prison of the city.
Today, the Rector's Palace houses the Cultural History Museum as part of Dubrovnik's museums in its magnificent rooms.
Pred Dvorom Museum of Cultural History 3, 20 000 Dubrovnik,Croatia
Tel. +385 (0)20 321 422, +385(0)20 324 837 Fax. +385(0)20 322 096

• Cultural History Museum

The Napoleonic Fort on Dubrovnik's local mountain Srđ was built under the direction of the French general Auguste Marmot.
The cable car takes you from the historic old town directly to the Imperial Fortress, which today houses a permanent exhibition on the Yugoslavia war (1991-1995).
The fighting of this war also affected this fort and historic Dubrovnik. The traces are unmistakable.

• Museum of Croatian War of Independence

The Fort Royal is a Napoleonic fort on the today nature protected island of Lokrum in front of Dubrovnik. Fort Royal and Fort Imperial were created at the time of the siege and occupation of the city of Dubrovnik by the French from 1806.
As a result, the dissolution of the Republic of Ragusa was proclaimed in 1808 and Marshal Marmont was named by Napoleon as Duke of the new French province of Ragusa.
In the 19th century, the Austrians added the "Maximilian" tower to the Fort Royal.
The original Iron Throne of the "Game of Thrones" filming and an old Benedictine monastery with a beautiful garden are also on the island of Lokrum.
Lokrum Reserve/Office
Od Bosanke 4
20 000 Dubrovnik
+385 20 640 686
lokrum@lokrum.hr

• Fort Royal

City Walls & Old Town Walking Tour - Outstanding, Impressive, Intimidating Dubrovnik’s city walls.

• Walls of Dubrovnik